Walsh & Hoyt: POSTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY

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Identifier wh_ch7_370-372
Title Walsh & Hoyt: POSTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY
Creator Anthony C. Arnold, MD
Affiliation UCLA
Subject POSTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY, Post Operative Visual Loss, Post cardic, spinal sx
Description Posterior ischemic optic neuropathy (PION) is a syndrome of acute visual loss with characteristics of optic neuropathy without initial disc edema and marked by the subsequent development of optic atrophy. Occasionally, a small amount of disc edema appears withinthe first week or so after acute visual loss, presumably as a result of propagationof swelling forward along the course of the optic nerve from the point of original ischemia.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh and Hoyt Textbook Selections Collection: https://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s62j9mgs
Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 187446
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62j9mgs
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